When the offenses were huddling, you could find the TE, or Strong Guard, or 2 WR side, and make a front call to the offenses strong side, and get lined up. That allows them to bring an endless variety of four-man pressures with the two outside linebackers and the two inside linebackers since their front always includes four out of six or seven that know how to play a zone drop. The corners line up on their receivers. Either its going to be the offenses school song or youre gonna bounce the quarterbacks head off the turf and youre gonna pick that football up and run in and its going to be the other guys (school song). Very aggressive approach oriented around the belief that JT Barrett couldnt beat their guys in man coverage. The obvious key to pressuring modern spread offenses is to do so as efficiently as possible and without having to involve the guys on the back end in transparent fashions. The strong-side LB joins the weak-side LB. The Free Safety and Corners would have the same responsibilities as normal 3Z. In other words, the "field" side of the secondary gets a separate call from the "boundary" side of the secondary. Field Ace is similar to Field Hawk, except the Will (nickel) will now walk-out over #2 weak, the Mike, the only LB in the box, will have the RB, and the SS now lines up over #2 strong. Sports quotes, stories, team names, and slogans. The state of Texas doesnt produce linebackers quite like the state of Wisconsin does. The reason the 46 defense fell out of favor is that when it came to pass coverage, you only had three defensive backs to protect the whole field. The Rover is an. The 46 or Bear Defense | mgoblog The 46 defense, sometimes written 4-6 defense, is still used today, but not very often. The 46 defense doesnt require new players to be on the field say an extra defensive lineman, linebacker of member of the secondary. No defenders are placed over the offensive tackles, instead a defensive end is placed to the outside shoulder of the left tackle and old number "46", who is a cross between a linebacker and a. So that wasnt good for defenses. With the Sam linebacker starting the play at the line of scrimmage, that leaves only the Mike and the Will in their traditional alignments with traditional responsibilities. Regardless of whether or not a Tight End is part of the formation, we will have one defender to defend each gap presented by the offense. With so many defensive linemen so close to each other, the 46 defense easily allows for defensive coaches to work in curls or stunts that would switch up the gap responsibilities and confuse offensive linemen even more. While its definitely great against the run because of how many players stack the line of scrimmage, its also good against the pass. You can rotate the F$strong, Red coverage, and swipe the backside, or you can rotate the F$weak Yellow, and swipe the strong side. Those teams fielded some of the best front-seven defenses ever, and included such players as Jerome Brown, Mike Singletary, Steve McMichael, Richard Dent, Dan Hampton, Clyde Simmons, Reggie White, Otis Wilson, Seth Joyner, William Fuller, and Wilber Marshall. The 85 Bears defense set NFL records for most forced turnovers and the fewest yards, points, and first downs given up in a season. So the Sooners arent exactly blitzing, really theyre using the 46 defense as a starting point on passing downs and an ending point on standard downs. Football 101 - Spill vs. The defense, most importantly, was monstrous. Don't let the fact that the Double Eagle Flex turns into a 4-2-5 Defense when you face Spread opponents. Lost in the hail of spread-option run attacks and plug'n'play prolific Duck quarterbacks has been the Oregon defense . Line up the strongest pass rusher against the center.